Even i large condominiums of Giugliano center and
numerous people in the coastal area are adhering to the Administration's proposal.
Many users run to lawyers at withdraw the appeals, and some large users, public companies and
private, have already joined or are about to join.
We can say
this is based on the numbers we have available: just under 3,000 arrived at citizens' homes
deeds of membership accompanied by a letter from the Mayor and have already been issued
subscribed over 1,000 less than
ten rounds!!
Given the trend…
we think, with due caution, this is a real success that rewards the big organizational effort for a battle of legality and justice.
Process standardization
We now have a
complete picture of the entire water service situation: the users
in total there are approximately 37,000; approximately 1/3 do not have a regular contract
administration and water meter; 1/3
still has the water meter not working and the rest of the users have consumption
water levels found in meter readings from 1998 to today, which exceed,
in most cases, the sums proposed by the agreement. Therefore
for them too, the Municipality's proposal is an opportunity not to be missed!
The effort of
normalization of the service, search for illegal connections is still ongoing
in progress: in fact the competent municipal offices, the Aqueduct Office,
the Maintenance Office and the Financial Office together with the Anti-illegality Office
they are doing a great job: we finally have a complete archive of
users (with name and surname), have been found around 20,000 users who have never contributed to the water service
including 5,000 non-resident users! The offices are also taking action
to cross-reference the water databases with those of the municipal waste collection service in
in such a way as to recover tax evaders also on the waste disposal front.
The largest recovery operation
economy of the municipality of Giugliano and the first memberships
The “agreed
water” represents the largest operation for the recovery of economic resources
for the municipality of Giugliano... 47 million euros which will be used for create water infrastructures e
sewerage, increase pressures,
reduce losses, of which the city
needs, and to strengthen the municipal budget.
I want
highlight an important phenomenon: the first people who joined the
agreed upon are those belonging to bands
of the weakest population, elderly people and families in difficulty, who
they told us that they were convinced by the fairness of the proposal, by the
desire to close an old and degrading affair for this city. Yes they are
complimented the Administration and encouraged us to continue
this direction. We believe the city is giving a great lesson in civilization to those who are sad
habit of criticizing any proposal and not believing in the honesty of
our citizens and to all those who have the bad habit of not fulfilling one's civic duties.
Some general considerations
Before
address the question of possible prescription I would like to make some
considerations on the climate of recent months that has been created around the agreement
water.
I would like to
First of all, let's point out that every citizen of Giugliano knows well that, for about 15
years, there is a problem related to the collection of water fees and the
poor quality of water and sewerage service. Every citizen knows from where the responsibilities come from,
but he also knows that many users have taken advantage of the situation of anarchy where we found ourselves. The same ones
citizens know well that the current Administration, the undersigned, as well as
all the other people who gave us a hand in this battle of
legality... they have no responsibility for the current state of disservices,
nor for old bills, much less for poor water quality
drinkable. I would also say that the Administration nor can it be accused of inertia or indifference towards the problem
financial and to the problems of infrastructure deficiency. I say this because,
as you know well, yes, even with water
he can do politics (not charging for it) and the best way is to
do nothing and leave the initiative to others. Each of you knows well that
some cleverly he doesn't... he doesn't make mistakes
That said
I would like to bring the matter back to right
binaries: we are not a private company, nor a telephone company,
much less a joint-stock company which needs profit to sustain itself
of sales… we are not selling
nothing. We did an operation
on the contrary: we counted the debts, we verified, objectively
average consumption per person, and we have spread this enormous financial hole equally
on all users.
Allow me one
question: but more public water than that
what were we supposed to do? The Municipality pays the water to the Region, the citizens
reimburse the Municipality. Nothing more. The alternative was to continue giving away
the water and put the municipality in debt up to bring it
to bankruptcy… I don't think you think this is governing
good for current citizens and for future generations... I don't think this
yes lasting and sustainable development.
The criticisms of these days on the walls of
city
The attacks
these days they seem to be those against insurance, or against
telephone companies; it is the general principle that escapes those i
who intend to destabilize the favorable climate created by
thousands of registrations in recent days: the
water agreement is simply an attempt to normalize the entire system,
it is simply a response to all those, and I believe most, who
they wanted everyone to contribute to paying, that they were not privileged,
that meters were installed, that everyone had access to a “good
water”, etc.
The prescription
I want to open again
a small parenthesis before addressing the question of prescription. Who has
written in these days of prescription talked about justice And truth.
I would like to start right there. Sorry if I insist: but it is a fact that the water has been consumed. About 15 million meters
cubes per year. Also in '98, '99 and 2000. I think this is a given
certainly, indisputable and, I don't think, without the problems of water scarcity
during the summer periods and to some particular situations, which the Municipality prevented the water supply
to someone. So why get angry
on the question of prescription And talk
of justice when the resource has been consumed by all and when justice
it should be to contribute to the expense of what has been consumed?
So, if you believe in the principle we have followed, that is, to calculate i
consumption based on averages of Italian consumption and by core components
familiar, It's not this criterion anymore
right than saying I don't pay because it is prescribed and therefore they will pay
our children with a bankrupt municipality?
Let's come to
appeals and the first few sentences available to us in the last few days:
1)
the cases are very varied but it can be traced back to
three/four types:
a)
those who have neither the contract nor the meter;
b)
those who have a meter but it hasn't worked for years;
c)
who has a working meter but this is not possible
go back to the initial reading of 1998;
d)
finally who has the contract, the working meter and
the initial reading.
I think the cases
should be treated differently,
and the Administration is already studying the forms for appeal in ordinary courts to the sentences of the justices of the peace
and for defend themselves from those who for years
have used a service for free, often with illegal connections and
hygienically not very recommendable.
We think that,
with different degrees of responsibility from the first to the third category, ai
pursuant to current laws and numerous rulings of the Court of Cassation,
can be objected to by illegal theft of water
enrichment, from the uninhabitability of
houses not connected to drinking water pipes to contamination of
water resource through unauthorized wells.
But it's not this
the level of discussion, no Administration, in fact, much less the
ours, wants to start proceedings
judicial of mass towards the citizens, indeed the concordat represents
own the will to want to heal in
fair manner for all a situation outside the courtroom.
Also having chosen not to defend oneself against the individual appellants but having
Choosing a general solution represents proof of not wanting confrontation and
the laceration of relations with citizens. However, unlike the
Administrations that preceded us, we have chosen to recover the sums
con un atto coraggioso di chiedere dei soldi ai cittadini per quanto consumato.
And therefore, always following a principle of justice, we will also defend ourselves from
those who will resort to justices of the peace with all weapons, civil and criminal,
which an Administration can make use of.
Even the idea of
flat rate calculation, although exceptions
by some justices of the peace and some lawyers, still convinces us on the basis
of justice and equity that underlies; so much so that there are sentences that say yes
based on the principle of lump sum compensation when this is not possible
objectively establish the amount of consumption not only for the service
drinking water, but also for electricity.
Therefore the proposal
of the Administration was to seek an agreement with the parties
social, first, then with consumer associations and, finally, with citizens. The
path was strongly shared.
But there is still a lot to do and I am there
still some critical issues
First of all
I would like to launch a call to strength
policies, especially those of the center left, to help us in this
battle for legality. We think we need to come together on issues
which affect local finance but even more the civic sense of everyone
us. And the water problem in Giugliano represents both issues.
Although they are
many help desks have been activated, both at GESET and at the Municipality, the inconveniences
persist and we are studying further forms of access to speed them up
procedures and reduce waiting times we apologize to all citizens that these days, with great civility and responsibility, yes
by going to the counters.
The
documentation has not yet reached all homes because users are,
as we said, over 37,000, but we have already installed approximately 4,000 new meters and we are
already starting with the strengthening of the water and sewerage network and, from the 20th
February, was launched, together with the ASL and ARIN, pursuant to the decree
legislative n° 31 of 2003, a campaign
of periodic measures to control the quality of the water by checking a
series of chemical and bacteriological parameters.
In short, we are on the right track!
(from interview with "TeleclubItalia", October 2007)
In short, we are on the right track!
(from interview with "TeleclubItalia", October 2007)
Armando Di Nardo
Councilor for Technological Networks
of the Municipality of Giugliano in Campania